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HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 



RELATIVE TO 



UNDERGRADUATES. 



CAMBRIDGE: 
METCALF AND COMPANY, 

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

1845. 



V 



LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 

1. The President, the Professors not ex- 
empted by the tenure of their offices, and the 
Tutors, have the immediate care and govern- 
ment of the Undergraduates, and are denomi- 
nated the Faculty of the College. 

2. The Faculty have authority to make all 
orders and regulations necessary for carrying 
into effect their powers and duties. They have 
cognizance of all offences committed by the 
Undergraduates, and enforce observance of all 
the laws and regulations for maintaining disci- 
pline, and promoting order, virtue, piety, and 
good learning in the College. 

3. They have authority also to license per- 
sons as teachers of the polite accomplishments 
and of exercises conducive to health. 

4. The Faculty also have authority to regu- 
late the dress of the Undergraduates, giving 
seasonable notice to them, and their parents or 
guardians, of all alterations they may see fit to 
adopt. 



4 MATRICULATION. [Ctl. II. 

5. When any Undergraduate is brought be- 
fore the Faculty for violence or insult offered to 
any of the officers of the University, the per- 
sons injured or insulted, unless they be a ma- 
jority of the Faculty, shall not have a voice, or 
be present at the meeting, 

6. The Proctors shall be chosen for a term 
not exceeding two years, and shall exercise in 
their particular districts, and throughout the 
University, the same inspection and authority 
as a Tutor. 

7. Presents to the officers of the College 
from any class or individuals in a class are pro- 
hibited, and all officers are enjoined to decline 
accepting them. 



CHAPTER II. 



MATRICULATION. 



1. Every person admitted as a Student 
shall, on the first day of the term, or as soon 
after as may be, exhibit to the President a cer- 
tificate from the Steward, that a bond has been 
given, and payment made, as required by law. 
He shall then sign an acknowledgment in the 
following form : — "I acknowledge, that, having 
been admitted as a Student of Harvard Col- 
lege, I am subject to its laws." 

2. Persons admitted as Students may join 
the University on probation ; but shall not be 
received to full standing until after one term. 



Ch. III.] STUDENTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR A DEGREE. 5 

This time may be prolonged, however, at the 
discretion of the Faculty, to a period not ex- 
ceeding a year. If, during the time of his pro- 
bation, a Student shall fail to manifest such a 
degree of diligence in study, disposition to good 
order, and obedience to the laws, as shall be 
satisfactory to the Faculty ; or if upon any other 
ground it be deemed by the Faculty not advisa- 
ble that he should remain at the University, his 
connection shall cease. 

3. No application for the admission of a per- 
son, thus separated from the University, shall 
be received till after the interval of a year, and 
only upon his producing satisfactory testimonials 
of good conduct during the whole time of his 
separation. If again accepted upon examina- 
tion, he shall be put on probation as before ; 
and if during this second probation he shall be 
again separated from the University, his separa- 
tion shall be final. 

4. A matriculated Student, separated from the 
University by any censure, if again accepted 
upon examination, will be put on probation. 



CHAPTER III. 

STUDENTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR A DEGREE. 

1. The College is open to persons who are 
not candidates for a degree, and who desire to 
study in particular departments only. 
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6 THE HOURS OF STUDY. [CA. IV. 

2. They must bring satisfactory certificates 
of a good moral character, and possess such 
previous acquisitions as are required of Stu- 
dents before admission, so far as respects the 
studies they propose to pursue ; and must en- 
gage in such a number of studies as shall, in 
the judgment of the Faculty, be sufficient rea- 
sonably to occupy their whole time. 

3. They must give bonds, sign the required 
acknowledgment, attend prayers and public 
worship, and in general be subject to all the 
laws of the University in regard to diligence 
and good conduct. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE HOURS OF STUDY. 

1. The hours of study shall be established by 
the Faculty, from time to time, at their discre- 
tion. 

2. During these hours the Students are re- 
quired to remain in their rooms, and not leave 
them without a sufficient reason ; and to ab- 
stain from all noises, or other interruptions to 
study. 



Ch. V.] ABSENCE IN TERM TIME. 

CHAPTER V. 



ABSENCE IN TERM TIME. 



1. No Student shall be absent from the Col- 
lege a night in term time without permission 
from the President, or, in his absence, from the 
oldest member of the Faculty then in Cam- 
bridge. 

2. After the end of the vacation, and of every 
absence with leave* no Student will be deemed 
to have returned until the Monitor's books shall 
evidence his presence at prayers. 

3. Any Student, who shall have received a 
leave of absence from any other member of the 
Faculty than the President, shall lodge the same 
with such officer as shall be designated by the 
President, previous to his leaving town; with 
whom or with the President he shall also leave 
every certificate of excuse for absence, signed 
by his parent or guardian, or, in case of sickness, 
by his physician, or, if he be more than twenty- 
one years of age, by himself. 

4. Meritorious Students, whose circumstances 
require it, may, at the discretion of the Faculty, 
be absent for a limited time, for the purpose of 
keeping schools ; the studies and exercises of 
their Class during the time of their absence 
being rendered by them according to the rules 
the Faculty may establish. 



8 DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. [Ch. VI. 

CHAPTER VI. 

THE LORD'S DAY AND DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. 

1. The Students shall constantly, seasonably, 
and with due reverence, attend prayers in the 
Chapel morning and evening, and public wor- 
ship at the assigned place on the Lord's day, 
on the days of the annual public Fast and of 
the Dudleian Lecture, and at such other times 
as they may be required. 

2. Every Student is required, on the Lord's 
day, to abstain from all behaviour inconsistent 
with that sacred season. 

3. There shall be kept a bill of attendance 
on daily prayers, and a bill of attendance on 
public worship, by Monitors appointed for that 
purpose. 

4. The Faculty will from time to time regu- 
late the mode of receiving excuses, and of 
granting leave of absence from daily prayers 
and public worship ; and will give due notice to 
the Students of such regulations as they may 
adopt. 

5. Any Student may attend, on the Lord's 
day, the public service of any denomination of 
Christians having a place of public worship in 
the vicinity of the University, on the request, 
in writing, of such Student, if he be of full age, 
or on a like request, in writing, by his parent 
or guardian, if he be a minor, stating that such 
worship is that in which he has been educated, 



Ch. VII.] ROOMS AND THEIR OCCUPATION. 9 

or which, from conscientious motives, he is desir- 
ous to attend. Satisfactory evidence will, from 
time to time, be required, that he actually at- 
tends such stated religious worship. 



CHAPTER VII. 

ROOMS AND THEIR OCCUPATION. 

1. The Faculty will assign the rooms in the 
College, giving notice thereof in all cases to the 
Steward. 

2. Students shall statedly reside in the rooms 
assigned to them. No Student shall change 
his room without leave of the Faculty. No 
Student shall suffer any one to lodge at his 
room without leave from one of the Faculty. 

3. In all cases of disorder in any room, the 
occupants shall be responsible. 

4. When two Students occupy a room, each 
shall supply his proportion of furniture and 
fuel, during the whole time for which the 
room is assigned, whether he be present or ab- 
sent. 

5. No Student shall lodge or board out of 
the College, except at such houses as are ap- 
proved by the Faculty ; and no house will be 
so approved, except such as conform to the 
regulations the Faculty may establish. 

6. Every Student lodging or boarding out of 
Commons shall leave with the President the 
name of the family, or place, where he lodges 



10 DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS, &C. [_Ch. VIII. 

or boards. On every change of place of resi- 
dence or of boarding, he shall give a like no- 
tice. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS OR PROPERTY OF 
THE UNIVERSITY. 

1. Any Student, who shall damage, destroy, 
or purloin property belonging to the University, 
shall make good the same ; and he may also 
be assessed, at the discretion of the Faculty, 
an amount not exceeding threefold the actual 
damage done, to be appropriated to reducing 
the general charge for damages on the Students 
at large; or he may suffer any of the statutory 
punishments, according to the nature and cir- 
cumstances of the offence. 

2. If the perpetrator be not discovered, dam- 
age, when done to any inhabited room or 
study, shall be made good by the occupants ; 
when done to an entry, by an equal assessment 
upon those inhabiting the entry; when done 
to any public seat, table, or room, by an equal 
assessment upon those who occupy such seat, 
table, or room ; and when any other property, 
belonging to the University, is damaged, or de- 
stroyed, or purloined, it shall be made good by 
all the Students who were in the town at the 
time. 



Ch. IX.] VACATIONS. 11 

CHAPTER IX. 

TERMS AND VACATIONS. 

1 . There shall be two terms and two vaca- 
tions in each year. 

2. The first term will commence on the Fri- 
day next succeeding Commencement, and con- 
tinue twenty weeks. 

3. The first vacation will commence at the 
end of the first term, and continue six weeks. 

4. The second term will commence at the 
end of the first vacation, and continue twenty 
weeks. 

5. The second vacation will commence at 
the end of the second term, and continue until 
the Friday after Commencement. 

6. On the Fridays on which the vacations 
begin, there will be the usual morning exercise. 
On the Fridays on which the vacations end, 
there will be no exercise ; but the Students 
will attend at evening prayers on those days, 
and the regular exercises will begin on the fol- 
lowing morning. 

7. No Student, who is not an inhabitant of 
the town of Cambridge, shall remain in Cam- 
bridge during any vacation without leave from 
the Faculty ; and all Students remaining in 
Cambridge during the vacations shall be sub- 
ject to the laws enjoining orderly conduct, and 
to those respecting the boarding-houses of the 
Students. 



12 COMMONS. [Ch* X. 

CHAPTER X. 

COMMONS. 

1. Students, who board in Commons, shall 
be allowed to leave them only by a note from 
the. President, or, in case of his absence, from 
one of the Tutors. 

2. No Student shall be allowed to leave Com- 
mons, unless it be for more than one day. 

3. Each Student boarding in Commons shall, 
immediately upon coming into town, give no- 
tice to the contractor ; and, if any one neglect 
to give such notice, he shall be liable to a charge 
for board, amounting to double the cost of Com- 
mons for the whole of the time he shall have 
been in Commons without such notice being 
given. 

4. All damage done to the utensils in the 
hall at any meal shall be charged to the person 
or persons who did the same, or any part of it, 
if known; and, if it be not known who did the 
damage, the loss shall be borne by the contract- 
or for Commons. 

5. Any violation of order and decorum at 
Commons shall subject the offender to punish- 
ment at the discretion of the Faculty. 

6. Every Student, having his name in Com- 
mons after nine o'clock on the Monday next 
preceding any vacation, shall be charged with 
board in Commons to the end of the term. 



Ch. XI.] ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. 13 

CHAPTER XL 

ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. 

The following rewards and encouragements 
for literary exertions and good conduct have 
been established by the liberality of distinguish- 
ed benefactors of the University. 

1. The Hopkins Fund. 

The President, consulting with the Profes- 
sors and Tutors, will, in the early part of each 
year, present books, provided by the Hopkins 
Fund, to such Students of the Sophomore Class 
as shall be most distinguished for their applica- 
tion to their studies. 

2. The Bowdoin Prize Fund. 

The Corporation will annually give out sub- 
jects for dissertations in the English language, 
conformably to the will of the Hon. James Bow- 
doin, and offer premiums,* according to the 

* The course at present pursued by the Corporation in execut- 
ing this trust is, to offer the following premiums, viz. : — 

One prize of fifty dollars for the best dissertation by a Grad- 
uate. 

Two prizes, one of forty dollars and one of thirty, for the best 
and the second best dissertations by members of the Senior 
Class. 

Two prizes, one of forty dollars and one of thirty, for the 
best and the second best dissertations by members of the Junior 
Class. 

It is at the election of the successful candidates to have a 
gold medal of equal value with the prize awarded. And it is 
required that candidates should affix fictitious names to their 
dissertations, and accompany them with a sealed letter, having 
the fictitious name on the outside, and the real name within* 
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14 ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. \_Ch. XI. 

terms of that will, "for the advancement of use- 
ful and polite literature among the residents, 
as well Graduates as Undergraduates, of the 
University, in such way and manner as shall be 
best adapted to excite a spirit of emulation 
among such residents. The performances en- 
titled to such premiums to be read in public by 
their respective authors, who shall deliver a fair 
copy of the same, to be lodged in the Library ; 
such copies to be written on quarto paper of 
the same size, that such of them as shall merit 
it may be bound together in handsome volumes, 
and be lodged in the Library." 

3. The Boy 1st on Prize Fund. 

Agreeably to the institution of the "Boyl- 
ston Prizes for Elocution," on the day after 
Commencement in each year there will be held 
in University Hall, or in the Meeting-house in 
Cambridge, a public exhibition and trial of the 
skill and improvement of the Students of the 
University in elocution. The speakers are not 
to rehearse their own composition ; but to se- 
lect pieces in prose or verse, from English, 
Greek, or Latin authors, the selections to be 
approved by the Boylston Professor of Rheto- 
ric and Oratory, The proportion in English is 
to be at least two out of three. The competi- 
tors must be Graduates of the year, or Un- 
dergraduates of one of the two next classes. 
The Corporation will, each year, select five gen- 

These letters are all burnt unopened, except those of the suc- 
cessful candidates, whose names are placed on the records of 
the Corporation. 



Ch. XI.] ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. 15 

tlemen distinguished for their elocution, either 
at the bar, in the pulpit, or in the senate, who 
with the Corporation, or a major part of them, 
will judge of the merits of the competitors, and 
award the prizes. They will assign five prizes ; 
two first prizes, namely, fifteen dollars or a gold 
medal of that value to each of the two best 
speakers, and three second prizes, namely, ten 
dollars or a gold medal of that value to each 
of the three next best : Provided, that if the 
judges shall be of opinion, that none of the com- 
petitors have exhibited sufficient skill and im- 
provement to be entitled to the first prizes, they 
may withhold them- At this exhibition no 
prompting of the speakers will be allowed ; and 
a failure of memory in any one will exclude 
him from being considered in the assignment of 
the prizes. 

4. Hollis Scholarships. 

In the selection of Students to receive pe- 
cuniary favors, such as the Hollis Scholarships, 
the Corporation will give the preference to those 
(not otherwise disqualified) who are of good 
behaviour, and who are recommended by the 
Faculty as excelling in their studies. 

5. College Benefits. 

In the appointment of Students by the Facul- 
ty to perform services to which a compensation 
is annexed, regard will always be had to literary 
merit and to moral character. 

No one, who is a College beneficiary, shall 
remain such any longer than he shall continue 



16 PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. [Ch. XII. 

exemplary for sobriety, diligence, and orderly 
conduct. 

6. Exhibitions. 

There will be three exhibitions in each year, 
namely, one at each of the semiannual visits 
of the committee of the Overseers, and one 
about the end of the last term. The exercises 
at these exhibitions, as well as at Commence- 
ment, shall be assigned by the Faculty. The 
refusal of a Student to perform the part assign- 
ed him, on either of these occasions, will be 
punished as a high offence. Every performer 
shall deliver to the President, one week at least 
previously to the exhibition, a fair copy of his 
performance. At such times as may be fixed 
by the Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, each 
performer shall rehearse his part. If any one 
shall make additions to what is contained in the 
copy delivered by him to the President, or other 
presiding officer, or shall speak any thing in 
public which he has been directed to omit, he 
shall suffer punishment according to the aggra- 
vation of the offence. 



CHAPTER XII. 



PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 



1. The Students will be examined, from time 
to time, by committees appointed by the Over- 



Ch. XII.] PUBLTC EXAMINATIONS. 17 

seers from their own body, or from the commu- 
nity at large, in the whole of their studies. 

2. To carry this design into effect, it shall be 
the duty of each instructor, when a class has 
completed a particular branch of study, or a 
particular book, or at such other times as shall 
be judged expedient by the Faculty, and deter- 
mined by a rule, to give information of the same 
to the President, who will assign a day for the 
examination of the Class in that study or book, 
giving notice at least seven days before to the 
chairman of the committee appointed to exam- 
ine in that branch of study. And the examining 
committee will be requested to mark by num- 
bers their estimate of the performance of each 
Student, on a scale to be fixed by the Faculty ; 
and the estimate of the several members of the 
committee shall be added to the account of each 
Student in the scale of merit. The committee 
will also state generally their opinion of the de- 
gree of thoroughness and exactness, with which 
the book, or branch of study, has been learned. 

3. Unauthorized or unexcused absences from 
any such public examination shall subject the 
Student to such a deduction from his scale of 
merit, and to such special examination, as the 
Faculty shall prescribe. 



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18 SCALE OF MERIT. [C7l. XIII. 

CHAPTER XIII. 



SCALE OF MERIT. 



1. In order to ascertain, as nearly as may be, 
the rank of each Student, a scale of merit for 
each term will be made by adding together the 
amounts allowed to each Student by the several 
instructors. 

2. The scale and the principles by which the 
estimates are to be made, including elective 
studies and estimates of them, shall be estab- 
lished by the Faculty, subject to such regula- 
tions as the Corporation may from time to time 
prescribe. 

3. These principles shall include a scale of 
punishments, by way of deduction from the es- 
timates of merit, on account of tardiness at and 
absence from public worship, daily prayers, and 
recitations, of lessons not accepted, and of every 
negligence or misconduct at recitations or else- 
where, for which the Faculty shall deem such 
deduction a sufficient or suitable punishment. 

4. At the close of each term, where any 
Student has failed to perform, to the satisfaction 
of the instructors, all studies and exercises 
which should have been performed during the 
term, the same may be required of him in the 
vacation ; and in order to this, he may be re- 
quired by the Faculty to remain at the Univer- 
sity until they have been fully performed. 



Ch. XIV.] PUNISHMENTS. 19 



CHAPTER XIV. 

PUNISHMENTS. 

1. The course of discipline in the College 
is, — friendly caution and warning, — solemn 
admonition, — official notice of delinquency to 
parents and guardians ; and, where the nature 
and circumstances of the case require it, sus- 
pension, — dismission, — rustication, — or expul- 
sion. Fines shall not be resorted to as an or- 
dinary punishment ; and none shall be imposed 
but by the Faculty. 

2. All instances of the violation of the laws 
of the College, by disorderly conduct, by ab- 
sence from stated exercises, or by the negligent 
performance of prescribed duties, will be record- 
ed, and formally reported to the Faculty, at set 
times, and whenever occasion requires. 

3. Whenever a Student is found to be delin- 
quent, he shall be liable, — to be deprived of 
any such indulgence, as may be granted to ex- 
emplary Students, with respect to absence, going 
out of town, and the like ; — to have particular 
portions of study prescribed to him, to be per- 
formed during the vacation, or at other times ; — 
and to forfeit all claims to the distinctions and 
rewards provided for the meritorious ; and, if he 
persist in such delinquency, he may be sus- 
pended or subjected to higher punishment. 

4. By suspension for negligence, a Student 



20 PUNISHMENTS. [Cfl. XIV. 

may be separated from his Class, as to those 
branches of study in which he is deficient, and 
placed under private instruction, provided for 
the purpose in the town of Cambridge. 

5. Every person so suspended is required to 
perform exercises with the person or persons, 
unde!* whose care he is placed, at such times 
and in such manner as the Faculty shall direct ; 
and he is not permitted to leave the town of 
Cambridge during the time of his suspension, 
without special leave for some very urgent 
reason ; the same rules and restrictions being 
in force in vacation as in term time. And in 
no case shall he be restored to good stand- 
ing, till he shall have given entire satisfac- 
tion for at least three months, by orderly con- 
duct, and diligent and faithful application to his 
studies. 

6. It is provided, however, that a Student, 
suspended either for negligence, or for any vio- 
lation of the laws, may, w 7 hen the Faculty shall 
think it expedient, be removed from the College 
and the town of Cambridge, and placed under 
the care of a suitable person ; and he shall be 
subject to restrictions and requisitions similar to 
those above mentioned, and be required to bring 
satisfactory testimonials of good conduct, and be 
examined for restoration. 

7. Dismission is the separation of a Student 
from the College for an indefinite or for a limited 
time, at the discretion of the Faculty ; and no 
dismissed Student shall be readmitted to the 
Class he left, or any other, without satisfactory 
testimonials of good conduct during his separa- 



Ch. XIV.] PUNISHMENTS. 21 

tion, and his appearing on examination to be 
well qualified for such readmission. 

8. Rustication is the separation of a Student 
from all connection with the College, his re- 
moval from it for one, two, or three years, and 
his final separation from the Class of which he 
was a member. At the end of the prescribed 
time he may be received into any lower class, 
at the discretion of the Faculty, upon his pro- 
ducing testimonials of good conduct during the 
whole time of his rustication, satisfactory to the 
Faculty, and upon his appearing on examination 
to be well qualified for the standing to which he 
is to be admitted. 

9. Expulsion is a final separation from the 
College. 

10. In all instances of offence against the 
laws and discipline of the College, or against 
good morals, to which no specific penalties are 
annexed in the laws, the Faculty may inflict 
such of the punishments before mentioned, as 
they shall think just and requisite. 

11. When an offence is repeated, the Fac- 
ulty will not ordinarily have recourse to the 
same punishment as at first, but will proceed to 
inflict successively higher punishments, until the 
Student is reclaimed, or separated from the 
College. 

12. In all cases of gross injuries or depreda- 
tions upon the property of the University or oth- 
ers ; or of gross trespasses or injuries done to 
persons or property within the precincts of the 
University, or charged upon any of its mem- 



22 PUNISHMENTS. [CA. XIV. 

bers ; or whenever the nature and circumstances 
of the offence in the judgment of the Faculty 
require, — it shall be their duty to cause prose- 
cution to be instituted before the established 
tribunals of the State, and the forms of proceed- 
ing to be pursued, which are usually applied to 
like crimes and misdemeanours when committed 
by other citizens, or residents, according to the 
laws of the Commonwealth. 

13. Every term -bill of each Student shall be 
accompanied by a statement, from the records, 
of every punishment or censure he has incurred, 
and of all his absences from exercises, lectures, 
and public worship ; with any other information, 
which, in the opinion of the Faculty, will be use- 
ful to his parent or guardian, to whom a copy of 
the term-bill, with the particulars above enu- 
merated, shall be sent. 

14. Whenever the Faculty are satisfied that 
a Student is not fulfilling the purposes of his 
residence at the College, or that he is not likely 
to fulfil them, or that he is from any cause an 
unfit member thereof, it shall be the duty of the 
Faculty to dismiss him. Provided, however, that 
the Faculty may, whenever they see fit, acquaint 
the parent or guardian of such Student with 
his character and conduct, and leave it to such 
parent or guardian to remove him by his or her 
own act. 



Cfl. XV.] HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. 23 



CHAPTER XV. 

HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. 

High offences may be punished at the dis- 
cretion of the Faculty with any of the College 
punishments. Misdemeanours are less offences, 
and may receive any censure below suspension, 
or, if repeated or persisted in, some higher pun- 
ishment. 

High offences are, — 

1. Gross violations of the respect due to the 
Faculty or other officers of the University. — 
Riotous and noisy behaviour, to the disturbance 
of the University or of the inhabitants of Cam- 
bridge. — Refusing or neglecting to attend, 
when sent for by the Faculty or any officer. — 
Diobedience to the sentence of the Faculty or 
a Committee thereof for any offence. — Ob- 
structing or resisting the instructors or other 
officers in the discharge of their duties, or en- 
couraging similar acts in others. — Challeng- 
ing, assaulting, or maliciously endeavouring to 
injure any Student. — Maliciously defacing or 
injuring the edifices of the University, or any 
furniture, apparatus, books, or other valuable 
property in any apartment thereof. 

2. Combinations to resist or disobey the Fac- 
ulty or laws of the College. In such cases if 
so many be actors or abettors, as to render it 
inexpedient to punish all concerned, the Faculty 
will select for punishment as many of the of- 



24 HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. [Ch. XV. 

fenders as they may judge necessary to secure 
the end of punishment; and those who have 
been the most culpable, when known, shall be 
selected for punishment ; and also the two old- 
est of those concerned in the offence. 

3. Holding, or being present at, any class- 
meeting without special license from the Presi- 
dent, or for any other purpose or purposes than 
those expressed in the license, or at any times 
that shall interfere with any College exercise. 

4. Refusing to give testimony in any case, 
when required by the Faculty, or by a commit- 
tee thereof; or falsifying therein. In all cases 
of screening individuals, who have committed 
acts of disorder or violence, by withholding 
evidence, the Faculty may select for punish- 
ment any who, by thus withholding evidence 
and screening the guilty, shall appear, to the 
satisfaction of the Faculty, to be actors in or 
abettors of the crime. 

5. Profane language. — Intoxication. — Inde- 
cency in language, dress, or behaviour. — Dis- 
soluteness, or other gross immorality. — Habitual 
extravagance, after due admonition. — Playing 
at any game for money or other things of value. 
— Associating with any person under sentence 
of suspension, dismission, rustication, or expul- 
sion ; or with any other prohibited person ; or 
with any person of known vice and dissolute- 
ness. — Any offence against the laws of the land, 
subjecting the offender to disgraceful punish- 
ment. 



Ch. XV.] HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. 25 

6. Keeping any gun, pistol, or gunpowder, or 
firing or using the same, in the town of Cam- 
bridge. — Being concerned in any bonfire, fire- 
works, or unauthorized illuminations. — Being 
an actor or spectator at any theatrical entertain- 
ment in term time. — Making or being present 
at any festive entertainment, except at the Com- 
mencement season and on Exhibition day with 
license of the President. — Going to any tavern 
or victualling-house in Cambridge for the pur- 
pose of eating or drinking, except in the pres- 
ence of a parent, guardian, or Patron. 

Misdemeanours are, — 

1. All offences not enumerated as high of- 
fences. Among these are the following. — Keep- 
ing any dog, horse, or other animal, in the town 
of Cambridge, without leave first obtained from 
the Faculty. — Playing at cards or dice. — Dis- 
obedience to any of the rules and regulations 
of the College, and disrespectful and unbecom- 
ing language or conduct, not amounting to a 
high offence. 

2. Attending during term time the instruc- 
tion of any person who is not an officer of the 
University, without special permission from the 
Faculty. 



26 PATRON. [C/l. XVI. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE PATRON. 

1. Some gentleman of Cambridge, not of the 
Faculty, shall be appointed by the Corporation 
to be Patron of all Students not of this Com- 
monwealth, who belong to places more than 
one hundred miles distant from Cambridge, and 
shall have charge of all the funds of such Stu- 
dents. 

2. The Patron shall have particular instructions 
from the Faculty concerning the kind of ex- 
penses allowed to be incurred by the Students 
whose funds are in his hands, and he shall make 
no disbursements and pay no bills inconsistent 
with such instructions ; and whatever bills he 
may pay shall contain a distinct specification 
and charge of every article. 

3. The Patron shall give a detailed account of 
the expenses incurred by each Student under 
his care to the Faculty, and to the Corporation, 
when required. 

4. The parent or guardian of each Student 
shall be informed what are the necessary annual 
expenses included in the term-bills ; and he shall 
also be informed by the Patron what funds for 
the support and use of his son or ward must be 
remitted to him ; and the Patron is to have the 
whole control of the same, under the direction 
of the Faculty. 



Ch. XVII.] LIBRARY. 27 

5. No Student, subject to this law, shall be 
permitted to continue at the College unless he 
comply with it; and every such Student is to 
be charged in his term-bills at the rate of six 
dollars a year towards a compensation to the 
Patron. 

6. No such Student is allowed to contract any 
debt without an order from the Patron. 

The rules of the College, in relation to the 
expenditures of Students belonging to this State, 
or to any place within a hundred miles of Cam- 
bridge, are to be communicated to the Students 
concerned and to their parents or guardians ; 
and no such Student is allowed to contract any 
debt without an order from his parent or guar- 
dian. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

THE LIBRARY, AND THE USE OF IT BY UNDERGRADU- 
ATES. 

1. The Library, in term time, shall be open, 
for using books, six hours a day on the first four 
secular days of the w r eek, and four hours on 
Friday, during such parts of the day as the Fac- 
ulty shall direct ; except on the days of public 
Fast and Thanksgiving, the day of the general 
Election, and the Fourth of July, and on the 
days of public Exhibitions and the Dudleian 
Lecture, during the exercises. 



28 LIBRARY. [Ch. XVII. 

2. Undergraduates will apply for books, and 
receive them, as follows, viz. 

Seniors and Juniors apply for books on Mon- 
day and Thursday, Sophomores on Tuesday, 
Freshmen on Wednesday ; at such hours, and 
under such rules, as may be prescribed by the 
Faculty. 

3. The times for returning books to the Li- 
brary shall be the same as those appointed for 
applying for them. 

4. The books most suitable for the use of 
Undergraduates shall be separated from the rest, 
and deposited in the Librarian's room, where 
they shall be accessible to the students, and 
may be borrowed by them. 

5. Books may also be borrowed from the gen- 
eral Library by the Students on application to 
the Librarian. 

6. No person shall go into any of the alcoves, 
or take down any book from the shelves, or re- 
main there to read and consult any book, except 
under such special regulations as the Faculty 
shall establish. 

7. No person shall ordinarily be allowed to 
borrow from the Library more than three vol- 
umes at the same time, or shall keep any book 
belonging to it more than six weeks. 

8. Each member of the Senior and Junior 
Classes may borrow from the Library, of such 
books as are selected for their use, not more 
than three volumes at a time ; and each Student 
of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes, not 
more than two volumes. 



Ctl. XVII.] LIBRARY. 29 

9. No book shall be borrowed from the Li- 
brary, or returned to it, without the knowledge 
and presence of the Librarian or his Assistant, 
who shall take particular notice of the state of 
each book, when delivered out, and when re- 
turned. And the Librarian shall keep a fair 
and regular account of the person borrowing 
or returning the same, and the time of doing it ; 
which account shall be signed by the borrower, 
if present; otherwise the book may be deliv- 
ered upon his written application. 

10. No person shall lend to any other a book, 
which he has borrowed from the Library, nor 
let it go from under his personal custody. And 
no Student shall carry a book out of town 
without special leave. 

11. If any person shall fail to comply with 
the laws regulating the borrowing and return- 
ing of books, and the lending or carrying them 
out of town, such person shall be reported to 
the Faculty, who may suspend his privilege of 
borrowing, or inflict some other penalty at their 
discretion. 

12. All books borrowed by the Students must 
be returned on or before the Tuesday immedi- 
ately preceding the Winter vacation. Those 
who reside in Cambridge during any vacation 
are permitted to have books at the regular times. 

13. Every person, tvithout exception, having 
books from the Library, shall return them in the 
month of June annually, as soon, at the latest, 
as the ninth Wednesday before Commence- 



30 COMMENCEMENT. [CA. XVIII. 

ment ; and all the books shall be retained in the 
Library, from and after said ninth Wednesday, 
twenty-five days, for the Annual Examination. 

14. If any book borrowed from the Library 
be injured or defaced by writing in it or other- 
wise, or be lost, the Librarian shall make imme- 
diate report of it to the Faculty. And if the 
borrower be a Graduate or Undergraduate, the 
Faculty shall oblige him to replace it as soon 
as possible, with one of equal value, or they 
may punish him by fine or otherwise ; and, if 
such volume be part of a set, the borrower 
shall be obliged to replace the whole set, or 
be punished as above ; and, until this be done, 
he shall not be allowed to borrow any other 
book. 

15. The Faculty shall have authority to make 
regulations, from time to time, respecting the 
use of the Library, as they may deem expedi- 
ent, subject to the approbation of the Corpora- 
tion. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

COMMENCEMENT AND ACADEMICAL DEGREES. 

1. The Commencement hereafter shall be on 
the fourth Wednesday in August, annually. 

2. No Student shall receive a first degree, 
unless he produce to the President a certifi- 
cate from the Steward, that he has paid his 



Ch. XVIII.] COMMENCEMENT. 31 

College dues, and one from the Librarian, 
that he is not a delinquent at the Library ; 
which certificates must be produced on the 
day before the Commencement, at furthest, or 
the degree will not be conferred that year. 

3. No one shall be admitted to a first degree, 
who has not attended upon, and satisfactorily 
performed, the course of academical exercises ; 
nor any one who refuses or neglects to per- 
form at the Commencement the part assigned 
him. 

4. Each performer at the Commencement 
shall deliver a fair copy of his performance to 
the President or presiding officer, within such 
time as shall be prescribed, previously to the 
Commencement. 

5. If any one shall make additions to what is 
contained in the copy delivered by him to the 
President, or other presiding officer, or shall 
utter any thing in public which he has been 
directed to omit, he shall not be suffered to 
proceed, and shall be liable to lose his degree. 

6. Every candidate for a first degree shall 
attend in black, or in such dress as is prescrib- 
ed for Undergraduates. 



INDEX. 



Absences in Term Time, how restricted, 7. 

, Leave for, how granted, 7. 

from Public Examinations, how punished, 17. 

from Exercises and Duties, how punished, 18. 

Absence, Leave of, Excuse for, how granted, 7. 

, in Term Time, how granted, 7. 

, Duty of Students returning after, 7. 

Account, Detailed, to be given by the Patron to the Faculty, 26. 

Admittance to Full Standing, when and how, 5, 6. 

Animal, none to be kept without license, 25. 

Assessments for damage done, when made, and in what man- 
ner, 10. 

Assaulting a Student, how punished, 23. 

Associating with a person dismissed, rusticated, or expelled, how 
punished, 24. 

Attendance on the Instruction of any one, not an officer of the 
University, without license, prohibited, 25. 

B. 

Beneficiaries, how selected, 15. 

Bill of Attendance on Prayers to be kept, 8. 

Boarding-houses to be approved by the Faculty, 9, 10. 

Board in Commons, Regulations of, 12. 

Boarding out of College, how restricted and regulated, 9, 10. 

Bonfires, Making of, prohibited, and how punished, 25. 

Books from the Library, on what days and hours to be applied 
for, 28. 

, when to be returned, 29, 30. 

, Application for, at the Library, when to be made, 28. 

, not to be borrowed or returned without the knowledge of 

the Librarian or his Assistant, 29. 

most suitable for Undergraduates, to be distinguished, 28. 

, what, may be borrowed, and how many, how to be ob- 
tained, 28, 29. 

not to be lent, 29. 



34 INDEX. 

Books, Privilege of borrowing, when to be suspended, 29. 

not to be taken down from the shelves and alcoves without 

special permission of the Librarian, 28. 

, injured, defaced, or lost, to be reported to the Faculty, 30. 

Bowdoin Prize Fund, how awarded, 13. 
Boylston Prize Fund, 14. 

, how distributed, 15. 

Buildings and Property, Damage done to, how punished, 10. 



Candidates for First Degree, how to be dressed, 31. 
Cards, Playing at, prohibited, 25. 
Challenging a Student, how punished, 23. 
Civil Tribunals, when to be resorted to, 22. 
Class Meetings, not to be held without license, 24. 

, how regulated and restricted, 24. 

, when punished as unlawful combinations, 24. 

Combinations to resist or disobey the laws, how punished, 23. 
Committees of Examination, how and when notified, 16, 17. 

, how to estimate the performances of the Student, 17. 

Commencement, Festive Entertainments on, how licensed, 25. 

, Duties of those who have" Parts at, 31. 

Commons and Board, Regulation of, 12. 

, Disorder at, how punished, 12. 

Compensation to Patron, 26. 

Connection with the University, how closed, 5. 

Crimes, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 22. 

D. 

Damage done to Buildings or Property, how punished, 10. 

done to Utensils in the Hall, how to be assessed, and on 

whom, 10. 

, when assessed, how appropriated, 10. 

when assessed, and upon whom, 10. 



Decorum, Violation of, at Commons, how punished, 12. 

Debt, Students not to incur, without an order from parent, guar- 
dian, or Patron, 27. 

Defacing or Injuring College Edifices or Property, how pun- 
ished, 23. 

Books belonging to the Library, how pun- 
ished, 30. 

Degree, Candidates for the First, at Commencement, how to be 
dressed, 31. 

Degrees, Academical, duties of those who receive them, 31. 

not to be conferred on those who refuse to perform their 

Parts, 31. 



INDEX. 35 

Devotional Exercises, Duty of Students at, 8. 

Dice, Playing at, prohibited, 25. 

Discipline*, Course of, in the University, 19. 

Dismission, its nature and consequences, 20. 

Disobedience to the Laws of the University, how punished, 19, 23. 

Diorderly Conduct, to be recorded and reported, 19. 

Dissoluteness, how punished, 24. 

Dog, not to be kept, 25. 

Dress, Candidates for First Degree, how to be dressed, 31. 

of Students, how regulated, 1. 

E. 

Examination, Acceptance on, what is the Student's duty upon, 4. 
Examinations, Public, when and how regulated, 16. 

, Absence from, how punished, 17. 

, Committees of, how and when notified, 17. 

Exercises, Students', how affected by Vacations, 11. 
at Exhibitions, Copy of, to be presented to the Presi- 
dent, 16. 

may be required to be performed in "Vacations, 16. 

-, what to be performed in case of absence, 19. 



Exhibitions, when and how Exercises at them are assigned and 

regulated, 16. 
Exhibition Days, Festive Entertainments on, how licensed, 25. 
Expulsion, its nature and consequences, 21. 
Extravagance, Habitual, how punished, 24. 
Evidence, Withholding, how punished, 24. 



Faculty of the University, Who constitute the, 3. 

, their authority, 3. 

, Members of, when insulted, not to sit on trial of the 

offender, 4. 

regulate Mode of granting Leave, and receiving Excuse 



for Absences, 8. 

assign Rooms, 9. 

approve Boarding-houses, 10. 

may require Students to perform Exercises in Vaca- 
tion, 19. 

give information to parents and guardians of conduct of 

Students, 22. 

; — , how to punish offences which have no specific penal- 
ties, 23. 

-, how to punish combinations for resistance and disobe- 



dience, 24. 

— — , when they may make a selection for punishment, 24. 
license Instructors, 24. 



36 



INDEX. 



Faculty may dismiss Students not fulfilling, or likely to fulfil, 
purposes of residence ; or advise parent or guardian to re- 
move them, 22. 

Festive Entertainment, Making or being present at, when pro- 
hibited, and how punished, 27. 

at Commencement, and on Exhibition Day, President 

may license, 25. 

Funds, when to be resorted to, and how restricted, 19. 

Fireworks, Making of, prohibited, and how punished, 25. 

Firing of a Gun, Pistol, or Gunpowder, in the town of Cambridge, 
prohibited, 25. 

Furniture and Fuel of Rooms, who are to find, 9. 



• 



G. 



Gaming, how punished, 25. 
Gun, not to be kept, 25. 
Gunpowder, not to be kept, 25. 

H. 

Habitual Extravagance, how punished, 24. 
High Offences, their nature and punishments, 23. 
Hollis Scholarships, how distributed, 15. 
Hopkins Fund, how applied, 13. 
Horse, not to be kept without license, 25. 
Hours of Study, how established, 6. 



Illuminations, Unauthorized, prohibited, and how punished, 25. 

Immorality, how punished, 24. 

Indecency in Language, Dress, or Behaviour, how punished, 24. 

Injuries or Trespasses, how punished, 23. 

Instructors of the University not to receive presents, 4. 

Instructors, not officers of the University, how licensed, 3. 

Intoxication, how punished, 24. 



Language, Profane, Disrespectful, or Unbecoming, how punished, 

24, 25. 
Laws, Violation of, to be recorded and reported, 19. 

of the Commonwealth, when resort to be had to them, 21. 

Leave of Absence, Duty of Students returning after, 7. 

for a night in Term Time, how granted, 7. 

Library, when open, and when may be closed, 27. 

Librarian to keep account of Books borrowed and returned, 29. 



INDEX. 37 

Librarian to report to the Faculty any Books defaced, injured, or 
lost, 30. 

Literary Exertions, Encouragements and Rewards for, 13. 

Lord's Day, Duty of Students on, 8. 

, Students may attend the public worship of any de- 
nomination of Christians, on what condition, 8. 

M. 

Matriculation, Requisites for, 4. 

Merit, Scale of, how made, 18. 

Misdemeanours, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 22. 

, their nature and punishments, 23-25. 



Offences, Repeated, how punished, 21. 

, against which there are no specific penalties, how pun- 
ished, 21. 

-, their nature and punishments, 23. 



— — , the oldest concerned in, when to be selected for punish- 
ment, 23. 
— against the Laws of the Land, Punishment of, 24. 



Parents or Guardians to be informed of the Students' conduct, 22. 

Patron, Laws relative to the, 26. 

Performances at Commencement, Copies of, to be delivered to the 
President, 31. — Penalty for additions to, or for uttering what 
has been directed to be omitted, 31. 

Polite Accomplishments, Teachers of, how licensed, 3. 

Prayers, Attendance on, Bills to be kept of, 8. 

Presents not allowed to Instructors or Officers of the University, 4. 

President, a Member of the Faculty, 3. 

Prize Funds, Hopkins, Bowdoin, Boylston, 13, 14. 

Probation, when closed, and what its consequences, 5. 

, when finally closed, 5. 

, what, and how long continued, 5. 

Proctors, their authority, 4. 

Profane Language, how punished, 24. 

Professors, which of the, are Members of the Faculty, 3. 

Property, Buildings, Damage done to, how punished, 10. 

Public Worship, of any denomination of Christians, may be attend- 
ed by the Students, on what conditions, 9. 

Punishments, how inflicted in cases where there are no specific 
penalties, 21. 

■ for gross trespasses, what, 21. 

, their nature and course, 19. 



38 INDEX. 



R. 



Refusing to attend when sent for by the Faculty or any officer, 
how punished, 23. 

Religious Services, Bills of Attendance on, to be kept, 8. 

Repetition of Offences, how punished, 23. 

Resisting Instructors, how punished, 23. — Obstructing Instruct- 
ors when performing their duties, how punished, 23. 

Return of Books to the Library, when to be made, 29. 

Rewards and Encouragements, how established for literary exer- 
tions, 13. 

Riotous Behaviour, how punished, 23. 

Rooms, Fuel and Furniture of, who to find, 9. 

, their occupation, 9. 

■ to be assigned by Faculty, 9. 

, Students' duty in respect of, 9. 

Rustication, its nature and consequences, 21. 

s. 

Scale of Merit, how made, J 8. 

, Principles of the, 18. 

Schools, what Students are allowed to keep, and on what terms, 7. 

Students may be required to remain at the University in Va- 
cation, until Exercises, in which they have failed, be per- 
formed, 19. 

, having been absent, what Exercises they are to per- 
form, 19. 

, their duty on return after any Vacation, 11. 

may be required to perform Exercises in Vacation, 19. 

, accepted on examination, their duties, 4. 

, their performances, how estimated by committee of ex- 
amination, 17. 

, Probation of, how much it may be prolonged, 5. 

, Delinquency of, how punished, 19. 

, Suspended, how restored, and on what conditions, 20. 

, Dismissed, on what conditions may be restored, 20. 

, Rusticated, on what conditions may be restored, 21. 

not to board in any houses, except such as are approved 

by the Faculty, 9. 

, their duty in Study Hours, 6. 

not to be absent a night in Term Time, without leave, 7. 

must lodge a certificate of leave or absence, when and 

where, 7. 

, returning after leave of absence, duty of, 7. 

, prolonging their absence beyond leave, duty of, 7. 

-, Meritorious, may be allowed to keep school, 7. 



, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 21. 



INDEX. 39 

Students to have their distinctions and punishments reported to 
their parents or guardians, 22. 

, their duty on the Lord's Day, and at devotional exer- 
cises, 8. 

, what they are to abstain from, on the Lord's Day, 8. 

, consequences of terminating Probation, 5. 

, when and how permitted to rejoin the University after 

Probation is closed, 5. 

, not Candidates for a Degree, how admitted, 5. 

, what required of them, and on what conditions, 6. 

, Dress of, how regulated, 3. 

may attend public worship of any denomination of Chris- 
tians, on what condition, 8. 

, how and when they may obtain the use of Books not 

usually allowed to be borrowed, 29. 

, residing in Cambridge, to have the use of the Library in 

Vacation, 29. 

, failing to comply with the laws of the Library, how pun- 
ished, 30. 

, when they may apply for Books, 28. 

, who of them may remain in Cambridge during Vacations, 

and how regulated, 11. 

, Damages assessed on, when and in what manner, 10. 

, doing damage to property or buildings, how punished, 10. 

, their duty in respect of Rooms and their occupation, 9. — 

Responsible for disorder in their Rooms, 9. 

, Exercises of, how affected by Vacations, 11. 

, Duty of, in respect of Commons, on coming to Cam- 
bridge, 12. 
-, not likely to fulfil the purposes of his residence, to be 



dismissed, 22. 
-, if unfit member of the University, may be dismissed, 22. 



Study Hours, how established, 6. 

, Duty of Students in, 6. 

Suspension, its consequences and regulations, 19. — May be in 
Cambridge or some other town, 20. 



Tavern, going to, when prohibited, and how punished, 25. 
Teachers of Polite Accomplishments, how licensed, 3. 
Term-Bills, with what marks of approbation or misconduct to be 

accompanied, 22. 
Testimony, Refusing to give, how punished, 24. 

, Falsifying in, how punished, 24. 

Theatrical Exhibitions, being present or an actor at, prohibited, 

and how punished, 25. 
Trespasses, Aggravated, how punished, 23, 24. 
Tutors, Members of the Faculty, 3. 



40 INDEX. 

u. 

University, the Faculty of, who constitute, 3. 

V. 

Vacations, Exercises may be required to be performed in, 19. 

, Duty of Students on their return after, 11. 

, How the charge for Commons is affected by, 12. 

, What Students may, and what may not, remain in Cam- 
bridge during, 11. 

, What Students may have the use of the Library in, 28. 

, how the Exercises of Students are affected by them, 11. 

-, their number and length, 11. 



Victualling-house, Going to, when and how punished, 25. 

w. 

Wood, in Rooms, who find, 9. 

Worship, Public, where Students may attend on the Lord's 
Day, 8. 



OHDEBS 



AND 



REGULATIONS 



THE FACULTY 



/ OF 

J 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 



CAMBRIDGE: 
METCALF AND COMPANY, 

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

1845. 



ORDERS AND REGULATIONS 



FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, 

PASSED HI CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORITY GIVEN BY 
THE LAWS OF THE COLLEGE. 



[See Laws, ch. i. § 2, 4.] 



§ I. OF THE DRESS OF THE STUDENTS. 

On Sabbaths and Exhibition days, and on all public 
occasions, each Student, in public, shall wear a black*** 
frcoat, with buttons of the same color. 



§11. OF EXCUSES FROM PARENTS OR GUARDIANS. 

[See Laws, ch. v. § 3.] 

All excuses by parents or guardians for absence, after 
vacation, or during term time, must state the reason of 
such absence, in order that the Faculty may judge of its 
sufficiency ; and no excuse, unaccompanied by a satis- 
factory reason, will be accepted. 



§ III. OF EXCUSES FOR ABSENCE FROM PRAYERS, SAB- 
BATH SERVICES, AND OTHER EXERCISES. 

[See Laws, ch. vi. § 3, 4.] 

The bills of attendance on prayers and Sabbath ser- 
vices shall be left at the President's study every Monday 
morning by the respective Monitors. 

No excuse for absence from prayers, Sabbath servi- 
ces, Recitations, Lectures, or other literary exercises, 
will be received, unless, in case of sickness, upon a cer- 
tificate from a physician, parent, or guardian ; and no 
such excuse shall be allowed, except by vote of the 
Faculty. 

§ IV. OF ABSENCE FROM SATURDAY EVENING PRAYERS. 

Any Student, who shall be absent from prayers on 
Saturday evening, shall be excused, upon entering his 
name with such officer as shall be designated by the 
President, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock 
of that evening. 

§V. — OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCES. 

Whenever, in the course of any one tertff^aftj^SW"* 
dent's unexcused absences from prayers shall amount to 
sixteen, or from recitations or lectures to four, or from 
church (half-days) to one, he shall be immediately re- 
ported to the Faculty, and shall receive a private admo- 
nition ; should his unexcused absences from prayers 
afterwards increase to thirty-two, or from recitations or 
lectures to eight, or from church to two, he shall receive 
a public admonition, and a letter shall be sent to his 
parent or guardian ; and, should his unexcused absences 
from prayers afterwards increase to forty-eight, from re- 
citations or lectures to twelve, or from church to three, 



he shall be suspended or dismissed. And he shall receive 
the same course of censures, whenever, during any one 
term, all his unexcused absences shall subject him to a 
deduction from the scale, first, of thirty-two, — secondly, 
of sixty-four, — and thirdly, of ninety-six. The above 
provisions shall not apply to Students on probation. 

§ VI. OF UNIVERSITY HALL, AND MEETINGS OF 

SOCIETIES. 

The Chapel shall never be used for any declamation, 
recitation, or public meeting whatsoever, rehearsals ex- 
cepted, without a special vote of the Faculty. 

University Hall shall be closed for the night imme- 
diately after evening Commons. 

No Society shall be deemed authorized and entitled 
to have any room assigned for its meetings, unless a copy 
of its constitution, and of all its rules and regulations, 
be deposited with the President. 

It shall also be the duty of every such authorized So- 
ciety to cause to be left with the President of the Uni- 
versity the names of its President and Secretary, within 
one week after their election ; and, when required, of all 
its members. 

To Societies complying with these conditions, the 
Faculty may assign a room, and cause it to be opened 
and lighted, on the evenings of their meetings, free of 
expense to such Societies. Any damage done in the 
building, during the evening of any such meeting, if be- 
lieved by the Faculty to have been occasioned by the 
meeting, or by those present at it, shall be assessed ac- 
cordingly. 

§ VII. — OF CLASS AND GENERAL MEETINGS. 

[See Laws, ch. xv. § 3.] 

No class, or general, or other meeting of Students 
shall be called, without an application in writing, of three 



6 

Students, and no more, expressing the purpose of such 
meeting ; nor otherwise than by a printed notice, signed 
by the President of the University, expressing the time, 
the object, and place of such meeting ; and the three 
Students applying for such meeting shall be held respon- 
sible for any proceedings at it contrary to the laws of 
the University, or other than for the object expressed in 
such application. Nor shall any such authorized meet- 
ing be continued by adjournment. But for every meet- 
ing a new authority must be applied for and obtained. 
Every Student attending any class, or general, or other 
meeting, otherwise called, will be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanour. 

§ VIII. OF VIOLATIONS OF DECORUM. 

The following shall be consided violations of de- 
corum : — 

Collecting in groups round the doors of the College 
buildings or in the yard. 

Shouting or talking from any window, or from the 
yard up to any window. 

Smoking in the yard, the public rooms, or the entries. 

Carrying canes into the Chapel, recitation-rooms, 
Library, or any public room. 

Reading, or talking, or improper attitude, in the 
Chapel, or being covered within the Chapel or recita- 
tion-rooms. 

Entering the Chapel, at any religious service, after 
the tolling of the bell has ceased . 

Singing or playing upon any musical instrument, ex- 
cept between 6 o'clock, P. M., and the study bell; and 
also on Saturdays after 10 o'clock, A. M. 

§ IX. OF BONFIRES. 

In case of a bonfire, any persons crying fire, — 
sounding an alarm, — leaving their rooms, — going to 
the fire, or being seen at it, — going into the College 
yard, — or assembling on account of such bonfire, — 
shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, and 
punished accordingly. 



§ X. OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 

[See Laws, ch. xn. § 2.] 

At every public examination, each member of the 
Committee will be requested to graduate his estimate 
of value by a scale, of which eight shall be indicative of 
the highest merit. The sum of the marks given by 
the members of the Committee, who are present, shall 
be carried to the account of each Student in the general 
estimate of merit. To this shall also be added the mark 
of the Instructor, graduated on a scale of forty. 

§ XI. OF ABSENCE FROM, AND OMISSIONS OF, RECI- 
TATIONS ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 

[See Laws, ch. xn. § 3.] 

Any unexcused or unauthorized absence from public 
examination shall subject the delinquent to have de- 
ducted from his account in the general scale of merit 
Jive times the average value of one recitation ; and he 
will also be examined by the Faculty in whatever was 
the subject of the public examination, and such pro- 
ceedings be had upon the result as they may deem 
expedient. 

If an entire class be examined, such class shall be 
excused from attending the regular recitations on the 
day of the examination. If a portion of a class be ex- 
amined, that portion shall be excused from attending 
those recitations with which the examination actually 
interferes. 

§ XII. OF THE ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS. 

[See ch. vn. §1,2.] 

Thirty-four rooms, including library rooms, shall be 
appropriated to the Seniors, to be elected by them. 



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The right of choice, among the members of the Class, 
to be regulated by the value, on the Steward's scale, of 
the rooms occupied during the previous years, and the 
living in a room the greater part of a year shall be deemed 
an occupation ; — those who chum together to have the 
preference. After all the chums are accommodated, 
the Seniors, who apply for rooms alone, may take the 
residue of the Senior appropriation, their right of choice 
being governed by the same principles as heretofore. 
Such Seniors may take chums from either of the under 
classes ; but no student shall occupy alone a room in 
Holworthy. 

Twenty-eight rooms shall be appropriated to the Jun- 
iors, to be elected by them on the same principle in 
respect to chums, and to the right of those who apply 
for rooms alone. 

Tiventy-jive rooms shall be appropriated to the Soph- 
omores, their choice regulated by the same principle. 

In case all the rooms appropriated to a Class are not 
taken by those of that Class having claims, the residue 
shall be assigned to applicants of the same Class alpha- 
betically, — the order of the alphabet to be reversed in 
alternate years. Preference will always be given to 
those who have occupied rooms in College. 

In respect of each class, if the whole number re- 
served to any class be not taken up, the residue shall be 
added to the number allowed to the class next below. 

Sixteen rooms, being all the rooms not assigned to the 
upper classes in the manner above described, shall be 
distributed to the Freshmen, except the rooms under 
Tutors and Proctors ; those in Holworthy always to be 
occupied each by two Freshmen. 

No person not actually a member of the College shall 
be considered as having any claim in the distribution of 
rooms. 

No Undergraduate shall quit a room which has been 
assigned to him, or occupy a room which has not been 
assigned to him, without leave of the President. 



§ XIII. OF ESTIMATES OF MERIT ; AND OF RETURNS 

OF ABSENCES FROM, AND CONDUCT AT, RECITA- 
TIONS. 

[See ch. xm. § 2.] 

Every Instructor will make a monthly return to the 
President, containing the opinion of such Instructor as to 
the value of every exercise performed relative to each 
individual, expressed in some number of a series, of 
which eight will be indicative of the highest value in 
recitations and in Latin and Greek written exercises ; — 
forty-eight in themes ; — seventy-two in forensics ; — and 
sixty in declamations. 

Any Student, who shall have been present at any 
recitation, or exercise, and not examined, shall be enti- 
tled to receive monthly the average value of his other 
recitations, for all such exercises, at which he shall have 
been present and not examined. 

No omissions shall be permitted to be made up, ex- 
cept in the term within which they have occurred, and 
by an express vote of the Faculty. 

In case of long-continued absence on account of sick- 
ness, or with leave to keep school, or otherwise, for rea- 
sons satisfactory to the Faculty, the individual may have 
an opportunity to be examined in all the studies recited 
by his Class during his absence, and may have such al- 
lowance, estimated according to the number of interven- 
ing lessons, as the Instructor may deem equitable. 

Every Instructor will also make a weekly return, in 
which he will note absence and tardiness, — all miscon- 
duct at recitations, — and any other circumstance, which 
ought to have weight in the general estimate of merit 
and conduct. 



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§ XIV. OF WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE. 

[See Laws, ch. xv. § 4.] 

In all cases of screening individuals, who have com- 
mitted acts of disorder or violence, by withholding evi- 
dence, the Faculty, in selecting persons for punishment 
who shall thus have offended against the laws, and shall 
thus appear, to the satisfaction of the Faculty, to be 
actors in or abettors of the crime, will be governed by 
the following rule, viz. They will select one or more of 
those, who, either from the records of the Faculty or of 
the Parietal Board, or from the concurring statement of 
a majority of the Instructors, shall appear to have been 
most disorderly and exceptionable in general conduct ; 
and will apply the punishment due to the principal of- 
fence to the person or persons thus selected ; unless the 
actually guilty shall, by confession, satisfactory to the 
Faculty, wholly exonerate those thus selected. 

§ XV. — OF PRESCRIBED AND ELECTIVE STUDIES. 

1st. The Freshman Class shall have no Elective stud- 
ies ; and their Prescribed studies shall be Mathematics, 
Greek, Latin, Chemistry, and History. 

2d. The Prescribed studies during the Sophomore 
year shall be English Grammar, Composition, Rhetoric, 
Declamation, Psychology, Natural History, and Civil 
History. The Elective studies shall be Mathematics, 
Greek, Latin, and the Modern Languages. 

3d. The Prescribed studies during the Junior year 
shall be English Composition, Logic, Declamation, 
Physics, the Constitution of the United States, Foren- 
sics, and History. The Elective studies shall be Bot- 
any, a more extended course in Psychology and Ethics, 
and any of the other elective studies above enumerated. 

4th. The Prescribed studies during the Senior year 
shall be Rhetoric, English Composition, Ethics, Civil 
Polity, Political Economy, Forensics, the Evidences of 



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Natural and Revealed Religion, History, and Declama- 
tion. The Elective studies shall be Botany, a more ex- 
tended course in Physics, and any of the elective 
studies allowed in the Sophomore year. 

5th. Four weeks at least before the close of the Sec- 
ond Term, every Student shall make a written statement 
to the Faculty of the elective studies he wishes to pur- 
sue the following year ; accompanied, if he be under 
age, by an application from his parent or guardian ; it 
being understood that the branches elected shall, in the 
opinion of the Faculty, be sufficient, with the prescribed 
studies, to occupy his time, and that the whole is sub- 
ject to revision by the Faculty ; and the arrangement 
thereupon made shall be binding for one year. 

§ XVI. — OF PERFORMANCES AT EXHIBITIONS AND 
COMMENCEMENTS. 

[See ch. xi. § 6.] 

Performances shall be in readiness for rehearsal one 
fortnight before every Exhibition, and six days before 
Commencement. 



§ XVII. OF THE SCALE OF MERIT. 

[See ch. xm. § 3.] 

One fortnight before the end of each term, the bills 
for that term shall be closed, and a new series of bills 
for the ensuing term shall be opened. 

A scale of merit shall then be formed by the Faculty 
with reference to the term then closed, by bringing to- 
gether the respective bills of attendance on prayers and 
Sabbath exercises, and the returns of the several In- 
structors, on the following principles. 

The merit of each individual shall be ascertained by 
adding together the numbers in the returns of each In- 
structor and of the public Examining Committees. 



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From the aggregate of these numbers shall be deduct- 
ed, for all unexcused delinquencies, as follows : — 

Every absence from daily prayers, . . .2 

Every absence from public worship for every half-day , 32 
Every tardiness at any recitation, lecture, or other 
exercise, ....... 4 

Every absence from recitation .... 8 

u u from a declamation ... 8 

" " from themes or forensics, . . 8 

Every omission of a theme or forensic, . . 48 

" " of a Greek or Latin written exercise, 8 

" " of a declamation ... 60 

" " of reading a forensic . . .48 

Any Student who shall come to a recitation un- 
prepared, shall be liable to a deduction of . 8 

Every Instructor may apportion his notation of those 
exercises, of which eight is indicative of the highest 
value, in such a manner as he shall judge most effective ; 
provided that the aggregate of his marks shall never ex- 
ceed what all the said exercises would be entitled to ; 
and that the principle of apportionment adopted shall be 
applicable to the whole Class attending him. 

Every absence from an exercise by combination will 
be deemed and punished as a high offence. 

Misconduct at recitations, lectures, or other exercises, 
not amounting to a high offence, shall be marked at the 
discretion of the Instructor, not exceeding thirty-two, 
and deduction be made accordingly. 

General misconduct will, at the discretion of the Fac- 
ulty, be made the ground of deduction. 

The scale of merit, formed by the result of the re- 
spective aggregates, additions, and deductions, shall be 
the general rule in reference to which all College bene- 
fits and honors shall be distributed. 



§ XVIII. OF ASSIGNMENT OF PARTS AT COMMENCE- 
MENT. 

[See Laws, cb, xi. § 6.] 

1. Every Student, the aggregate of all whose marks 
shall place him in the first half of his Class, shall be en- 
titled, on the ground of general scholarship, to a part at 
Commencement. 

2. Every Student who has distinguished himself in 
any department shall receive credit for the same by 
having the name of that department printed in connec- 
tion with his own in the Order of Performances at Com- 
mencement, and if he has distinguished himself highly, 
the name of the department shall be printed in Italics ; 
and all Students who attain to either of these honors, 
whether, in the general scale of merit, they fall within 
the first half of the Class or not, shall be entitled to a 
part at Commencement. 

3. If, upon the returns of the Rhetorical Department 
in Elocution, regard being also had to performances at 
Exhibition, it shall be thought unadvisable by the Fac- 
ulty, that a Student, who is entitled to a part at Com- 
mencement as aforesaid, should perform it, his part shall 
still be assigned as in other cases, and inserted in the 
Order of Performances for Commencement. 

§ XIX. OF THE PARIETAL COMMITTEE, AND ITS 

DUTIES. 

The officers resident within the College walls shall 
constitute a permanent standing committee, to be called 
the Parietal Committee. This Committee shall have 
particular cognizance of all tardinesses at prayers, and 
Sabbath services, and of all offences against good order 
and decorum. 



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Rules to be observed by the Parietal Committee. 
I. Of Tardinesses. 

1. The Committee shall keep a record of all tardi- 
nesses at prayers and Sabbath services ; and this shall 
be communicated to the Faculty at the end of every 
Term ; who will, for every instance, deduct eight from 
the rank of each Student so reported. 

2. Whenever the number of tardinesses of any one 
individual shall be found to amount to five in a Term, the 
fact shall be immediately reported to the Faculty for 
their action thereupon. 

II. Of Offences against Good Order and Decorum. 

1. Deduction from the rank of a Student, not exceed- 
ing thirty-two for one offence, shall be made by the 
Committee, whenever the nature or circumstances of 
the offence shall in their judgment require it. 

2. In case any offence, either from its character or its 
frequency, shall seem to the Committee to require a 
higher punishment than deduction, it shall be their duty 
to report the same to the Faculty forthwith. 



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